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Summary: nightmares!!
Review: After reading this book to my five year old he woke up with nightmares. The book shows a kids "proving" to his friends that he can be around peanuts, with dire consequences. To my kid, who has lived through anaphylactic reactions, this brought up many unpleasant memories. Parents of young kids BEWARE.
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Summary: Great for the grandkids !!!
Review: Bless the mother who takes the time to write a book to educate the world on life threatening, anaphylactic, nut allergies. That's got to be an endeavor worth praise. However, this book reinforces too many of the behavior's which gets these kids into the emergency room in the first place. Education, advocacy, and education - coupled with complete peanut avoidance - and overall compassion, is missing here. It's more of a trial by fire, and we're lucky Sam was still with us after the anaphylactic reaction - many kids are not as fortunate. It doesn't teach the public at large, true compassion and a willingness to abstain from peanut products *completely* in order to save a life. Until that is understood -- these kids are at risk in these facilities.
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Summary: Very helpful, not scary!
Review: I thought this book was great. Children could relate to the story and most of all this story reminds me how I found out my daughter was allergic to peanut butter. She was 5, when her class made bird feeders. That day our lives changed, just like Sam's did.
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Summary: Very helpful, not scary!
Review: This book helped a friend's five year old better understand her peanut allergy. She liked the bright pictures and identified with the main character, whose allergy to peanuts made him feel alone until he learned to deal with it. I've read reader reviews, and it seems that kids either love this book or are afraid of its depiction of an anaphylactic reaction. I think a lot of the reaction may depend upon the parent, and on the way he or she presents the message. For this particular little girl, the book was wonderful. It's a gift I would give again.
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Summary: Helpful for kids
Review: This book really helped our son. I was so glad to find it given his allergy and he easily related to the child in the book. The story describes a realistic situation of a kid taking a dare and the consequences that could result. What was really great about it is that we were able to use the story as a good starting point to talk with our son about well intentioned, or not, friends and adults and what he can and should do in different situations. (It is amazing how many times we've encountered people that think, "Just one little peanut can't hurt.") We ended up giving a copy to our son's teacher who used it in his classroom.
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